Seattle Tilth has received approval to hire an AmeriCorps member through the Washington Service Corps from January through July of 2016. Member will be working full-time with Just Garden, and in return will receive a stipend and an education award upon successful completion of service. Also provided: health coverage, childcare assistance, and pertinent training. Applications are open for college graduates under 25 years of age. Access to a car is a plus.

Conduct a survey of each recipient of the 187 garden builds by Just Garden since 2010 to determine program impacts & rate of retention.

Plan & execute seasonal gatherings of Just Gardeners, to include solicitation of donations for giveaway (seeds, compost, burlap, etc.), finding a venue & outreach to Just Garden participants.

Recruit & retain 20 “super-volunteers” who will attend all four of our garden building events & act as the core leadership for the organization going forward.

Conduct site visits to the homes of potential gardeners, ensuring the site is appropriate for a garden & assisting the gardener with agreements & in-processing paperwork.

Coordinate with Just Garden Program Manager & Seattle Tilth staff in conducting hands-on organic gardening workshops for Just Garden program participants & in the planning and execution of four large garden-building events in 2016.

Also, we’re starting to actively recruit volunteers for our February 27th build in Southeast Seattle. To sign up, please head over here: http://www.seattletilth.org/justgarden/. Scroll down to the appropriate volunteer job and click “sign up.”

As part of our design work on Skyway Park, we worked with local artist Fin’es Scott (http://www.finesscott.com/) to create a fun, playful art scheme for a new park entrance on 72nd Ave S. We are hopeful that the road vacation process will be completed next year, clearing the way for improvements and art projects like this one. The poster of this design (see link below) will be on display at a UW event next week. Enjoy!

Looking for practical ways to get involved in reinvigorating Skyway Park? Look no further! Here are two ways to get involved, and they both happen next week:

1) Thursday, November 12 at 6:30pm: Come to the Skyway Water & Sewer building for our steering committee. We will break into working groups, and the Skyway Park Group will create next steps that our community needs to take to get some projects going in the park.

2) Saturday, November 14th at 10am: Come to Skyway Park for a volunteer work party with fellow neighbors and King County. See this link for more information: http://buildskywaywesthill.org/event/volunteer-event-information-skyway-park/

Over the last year, this community has worked on completing the Skyway West Hill Action Plan. The new revised plan has the implementation matrix that will allow this community to leverage public and private resources and drive policy decisions related to growth for this community.